The Carmel of Buffalo, NY, has a special relationship with St Therese the Little Flower. Read about it here:
https://www.buffalocarmel.org/buffalo-carmel-history
The Cleveland Heights, OH, Carmel has closed. A developer has bought the property, and plans to raze the building. The Cloister wall, however, has escaped the wrecking ball. The developer has a use for it.
Article: https://www.cleveland.com/community/2020/06/cleveland-heights-council-gets-update-on-local-development-in-the-pandemic.html
Dallas, TX, still has their Carmel:
https://www.dallascarmelites.com/
Here's a history: https://materdeiparish.com/support-the-carmelite-nuns/
The Carmel of Bettendorf, IA, actually began in Davenport. This amazing monastery was vacated by the nuns when they relocated to Eldridge. (Unfortunately, that website is down). After the property was used as a boutique hotel -- after the Protestants then the Franciscans -- the owner developed an addiction treatment center.
https://www.theabbeycenter.com/
And it's history:
https://www.psychcongress.com/article/monastery-treatment-center
The Carmel of Detroit, MI, is now located in Clinton Township. Here's the website:
https://carmelctwp.org/
The Detroit Carmel's first home was on Webb Avenue. Then a more substantial monastery was built on Wyoming Avenue. The building has been repurposed as a homeless shelter/transitional housing, called COTS Peggy's Place:
https://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/2013/08/homeless_in_detroit_deep_in_th.html
COTS is the anacronym for Coalition in Temporary Shelter.
Grand Rapids' Carmel built a new monastery in Parnell in the early 1990s:
http://www.carmelitenuns.org/
The original monastery is now being utilized as an autism outreach center:
http://www.historygrandrapids.org/embeding/1689
New Albany's Carmel moved from there to Indianapolis. Eventually, the steady stream of Vocations evaporated, and the community was forced to put the monastery on the market. The Oldenburg Franciscan Sisters have taken in the nuns. The latter are now known as the Carmelites of Oldenburg:
https://ccacarmels.org/oldenburg/
The former monastery is now the Bishop Simon Brute College Seminary:
https://bishopsimonbrute.org/
The Alhambra, CA, Carmel is still located in their 1913 purpose-built monastery. Named for St Teresa of Avila, here is their site:
https://www.carmelteresa.org/
San Diego's Carmel also enjoys stability -- earthquakes notwithstanding:
https://www.carmelsandiego.com/
As does Carmel-by-the-Sea:
https://www.carmelitesistersbythesea.org/
Morristown, NJ, perseveres:
https://www.carmelnj.org/
The Carmel of Seattle is in their third building, and has just celebrated a double solemn profession!
https://seattlecarmel.org/photoalbums/solemn-profession-2021
Tucson, Arizona, had a monastery of Discalced Carmelite nuns at one time. However, I am unable to share anything with the reader because the provincial office never returned my email.
Last, but certainly not least, the former Carmelite monastery in Wheeling, WV, has been purchased by an entrepreneur. He plans to turn the building into a boutique hotel:
https://weelunk.com/monastery-rebuilds-look-inside-mount-carmels-changing-walls-beating-heart/
That being said, we conclude with the Discalced Carmelites, and I will return to discuss the Visitation -- or another pertinent post. Please stay tuned.
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